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While the aviation sector has long been referenced as contributing to the causes of climate change, the need for aviation to adapt to the consequences of climate change has not been as well researched or considered. The paper is a systematic quantitative literature review on climate change and aviation, which aims to explicate significant issues affecting aviation in a changing climate and to identify the aviation industry responses on climate change and adaptation. There are 46 references involved in the detailed assessment, selected according to variables such as methodology, paper outcomes and industry stakeholder. This emergent aviation and climate change adaptation literature could be broadened to cover more disciplines and approaches, an increased range of aviation stakeholders and go further beyond the larger airport case studies in developed countries. Further practical and policy developments are needed, particularly surrounding adaptation planning in aviation and the social justice implications of associated policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

\begin{document} The massive expansion of scientific literature on climate change challenges the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s ability to assess the science according to its objectives. Moreover, the number and variety of papers hinders researchers of the science-policy interface from making objective judgements about those IPCC assessments. This Big Literature problem requires innovative solutions to understanding and assessing the science of climate change. In this paper, we present a novel application of a machine-reading approach to model the topical content of papers on climate change. This dynamic topic model provides the basis for a \textit{topography} of the literature. We outline the thematic development of the field, identifying emerging topics in climate change literature, such as coral bleaching in the mid 90s or biochar more recently. Topics are used to analyse which areas of research are better covered by IPCC reports, uncovering an under-representation of solution-focused topics such as those on negative emissions, buildings and urban mitigation.\end{document} [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]